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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of1808.

Events

January 3 –The Examiner, "A Sunday paper, on politics, domestic economy, and theatricals", is established in London byJohn Hunt, edited by his brotherLeigh Hunt.
January 30 – The Théâtre St. Philippe opens inNew Orleans, United States.^[1]
September 20 – The firstTheatre Royal, Covent Garden inLondon, established in1732, is destroyed by fire along with most of the scenery, costumes and scripts. Rebuilding begins in December.

Uncertain date

Charles Thomson'sBible Translation from the Greek (Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Covenant) is printed byJane Aitken inPhiladelphia (United States).^[2]

New books

Fiction

James Norris Brewer –Mountville Castle^[3]
Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis –The Earl of Cork
Sarah Green –Tankerville Family^[4]
Elizabeth Hamilton –The Cottagers of Glenburnie^[5]
Heinrich von Kleist –Die Marquise von O...^[6]
Francis Lathom –The Northern Gallery
Charles Maturin –The Wild Irish Boy
Karoline Pichler –Agathocles
Joseph Strutt –Queenhoo Hall (Completed byWalter Scott)
Elizabeth Thomas –The Husband and Wife

Children

Ann Taylor andJane Taylor –Hymns for Infant Minds

Drama

James Nelson Barker –The Indian Princess^[7]
Matthäus Casimir von Collin –Belas Krieg mit dem Vater (Béla's War with His Father)^[8]
Richard Cumberland –The Jew of Mogadore
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe –Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy (published)
Theodore Hook –The Siege of St Quintin
Heinrich von Kleist
- Penthesilea
- The Broken Jug (Der zerbrochne Krug)
Adam Oehlenschläger
- Baldur hin Gode
- Hakon Jarl
John Tobin –The School for Authors

Poetry

William Blake –Milton (probable date)
Friedrich Schiller – revised version of "Ode to Joy", which formed the basis for the lyrics ofBeethoven's 9th Symphony
Friedrich Hölderlin
- "Der Rhein"
- "Patmos"
Walter Scott –Marmion

Non-fiction

Charles Fourier –The Theory of the Four Movements
J. F. Fries –Neue oder anthropologische Kritik der Vernunft (New Critique of Reason)
Johann Heinrich Jung –Theorie der Geisterkunde
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel –Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier
Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert –Ansichten von der Nachtseite der Naturwissenschaft

Births

January 27 –David Strauss, German theologian and writer (died1874)
February 5 –Carl Spitzweg, German poet (died1885)
February 16 –Gustave Planche, French critic (died1857)
March 16 –Hannah T. King, British-born American writer and pioneer (died1886)
March 22 –Caroline Norton (née Caroline Sheridan), English poet, pamphleteer and social reformer (died1877)
March 25 –José de Espronceda, Spanish poet (died1842)
April 18 –Teréz Karacs, Hungarian novelist, poet and memoirist (died1892)
May 22 –Gérard de Nerval, French poet and translator (died1855)^[9]
June 17 –Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian poet (died1845)^[10]
June 21 –John Critchley Prince, English poet (died1866)
June 22 –Xavier Marmier, French writer and translator (died1892)
June 28 –James Spedding, English author and editor (died1881)
July 10 –Solomon Northup, African-American memoirist (died c. 1864)
September 9 –Wendela Hebbe, Swedish playwright, journalist and novelist (died1899)
October 21 –Julia Maitland, English writer on India and children's writer (died1864)
November 2 –Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French novelist (died1889)
Unknown date –Harriet Ward, English non-fiction and fiction writer (died1873)

Deaths

February 12 –Anna Maria Bennett, English novelist (born c. 1760)
April 4 –Lady Charlotte Murray, English writer and botanist (born1854)
May 2 –John Collins, English poet and entertainer (born1742)
September 5 –John Home, Scottish poet (born1722)
September 13 –Saverio Bettinelli, Italian man of letters (born1718)
September 25 –Richard Porson, English classicist (born1757)
November 4 –Melchiore Cesarotti, Italian poet (born1730)
December 28 –John Duncan, English miscellanist (born1721)
c. November/December –Nólsoyar Páll, Faroese merchant and poet, lost at sea (born1766)

Uncertain date

Maria Riddell – West Indies-born poet, naturalist and travel writer (born1772)

References

^Karyl Lynn Zietz; Karyl Charna Lynn (1995).Opera Companies and Houses of the United States: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference. McFarland.ISBN 978-0-89950-955-6.
^Appleby, Joyce Oldham (2002).Encyclopedia of Women in American History. Sharpe Reference. p. 41.ISBN 978-0-7656-8038-9.
^Peter Garside; James Raven; Rainer Schöwerling; Antonia Forster (2000).The English Novel, 1770-1829: 1800-1829. Oxford University Press. p. 268.ISBN 978-0-19-818318-1.
^Peter Garside; James Raven; Rainer Schöwerling; Antonia Forster (2000).The English Novel, 1770–1829: 1800–1829. Oxford University Press. p. 273.ISBN 978-0-19-818318-1.
^Susan B. Egenolf (2009).The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 129.ISBN 978-0-7546-6203-7.
^Seán Allan (2001).The Stories of Heinrich Von Kleist: Fictions of Security. Camden House. p. 172.ISBN 978-1-57113-227-7.
^Various (1 August 1997).Early American Drama. Penguin Publishing Group. p. 109.ISBN 978-1-101-17721-1.
^Conversations-Lexicon: in zwei Bänden. A - Cz, [und im Anhange Artikel über die katholischen Glaubenslehren von A - D]. 1,1 (in German). Brockhaus. 1822. p. 688.
^John Flower (17 January 2013).Historical Dictionary of French Literature. Scarecrow Press. p. 365.ISBN 978-0-8108-7945-4.
^Norwegian and Swedish Poems. Bergen. 1872. p. 41.

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